I'm with Lorrie (first comment) - just go with your original yellow - it worked, you liked it, all good, it's just paint, right?

I have so many truly expensive flubs you wouldn't even want to get the list. I'm depressed just thinking about them now. Life and learn. Color is TRICKY and DECEIVING and it is a gamble when painting. Fo Sho!

Carol, I would paint the bench the bright yellow it was originally. School bus yellow! It will go with the bright colors of your home. As far as flubs, at least you are trying new things. I just sit and think about it. No action! ;-)

Carol, I love the new sign and my favorite things is that teapot with the yellow roses. Beautiful. I really should change the covers on my throw pillows. I have a hard time changing once I get a look I like. :) But at least you have me changing things in the center of our table. :):) Blessings, xoxo, Susie

I really like the yellow. I used that paint once. I didn't like it at first. But it grows on you. It's a contrast. With your other colors. I'm sure your visitors will love everything about your home and yard.Hugs

Hi Carol,My comment just disappeared. I hate when that happens. We like to add pillows to our beds to fluff and nest and guys just like to lay down and rest. Pillows for them is an added effort to move them! I love your vintage typewriter and how you display your quotes in it. OK I am a rebel, but how about painting it with blackboard paint? It's matte and outdoor durable, plus you can write messages or quotes in colored chalk.xoxo,Vera

Hi Carol,I would paint it a color that makes you smile. You are a color girl so I am sure the red or even a blue or trying another yellow would work. How about a sky blue or sea blue. Whatever you decide it will be beautiful for your sea cottage. Have a great week.Hugs,Kris

Talk about FLUBS. I feel like my recent 9 photos on IG are awful. I haven't had access to beautiful flowers in the last few days of my summer break, and now I'm back at school (gotta leave in a few minutes) but I so hope to fill in my IG squares with things that lift my heart. As for your paint job, you can easily change it and I wonder if your signature BLUE would work on that bench?

Whatever we do, I see it as a lesson. I literally took each day as a lesson during the summer, asking myself, "OK, what did you learn today?" whether it was a new adjustment on my camera, a few lines of a poem, or just a new way of photographing something. Mistakes are the best teachers.

Dear Carol,after this period of 'interlude' which I had to allow myself due to work reasons - the Short Lets I manage here at Tenuta Geremia, the speech about the Empress of Austria I had to prepare and to perform at the conference which was held last Saturday at Madonna di Campiglio, in our Dolomiti, some works of restoration here and the family to join and follow took me far from the pc for more than a month and a half - I'm so glad to be here again and enjoy your creativity, thank you sweet friend of mine !

Hope your week is off to a good start I'm sending my dearest love to you

Hi Carol, I am surprised at how your bench faded and so quickly. Yes, we all have flubs . . . I have plenty of them. The bench that I made to set in front of the Art Barn has turned into a big heavy flub. What I didn't realize when I bought the head board that I used is that the panels were fiberboard, not something you pick for outdoor furniture. It's so heavy, too, that it is hard to move. I did manage with the help of a movers dolly, get it off the little porch and over by the potting shed. Your flub wasn't really yours but the failure of the paint company . . . it really shouldn't have faded like that. Every other thing that you have done is so "over the top perfect", that I wouldn't give that bench another thought . . . maybe just a new coat of a different yellow paint :) Love your little sign!Connie :)

i love the yellow mixed in with your white, blue and red..just give it another spurt of a great yellow spray paint and you'll be good to go...heard the other day that there's a CHALK spray paint now...haven't ck;d it out, tho

We all have disappointments in some of our projects. I have lots in my greeting card makes. I love home made altered cards,I am really liking the old painted spool cabinet with the wire basket of letters setting on top.

Yep, we all make flubs, Carol! I think I liked the bright yellow that your bench had been painted. You're such a bright, cheery person and those colors just fit you!As for being a scattered brain ditz...I don't think so!!! You are so enthusiastic with all your projects and you never fail to amaze me.

Hi Carol, well I think all your displays are winners. Oh yes, I make plenty of flubs!! I think the bench in the bright yellow would go great with the red and blue.Love the C pillow too and the sign is a great one! Enjoy your company!